Benham was sentenced to two years probation. The judge also ordered that Benham and his associates must now stay 300 feet or more from wherever the doctor is working, and 1,000 feet from the doctor’s residence. Despite today’s conviction, the Feminist Majority Foundation, which tracks anti-abortion extremists and works to stop violence against reproductive health care providers, is calling for

these WANTED posters [to] be prosecuted by federal and state law enforcement authorities as violations of FACE and federal and state anti-stalking laws [which carry stiffer penalties than the residential picketing law he was convicted under].

Katherine Spillar, executive vice president of the Feminist Majority Foundation and an expert on anti-abortion terrorism (as well as executive editor of Ms.), says,

History shows that left unchecked, these wanted posters lead to murder. The pattern is clear: WANTED posters, murder, WANTED posters, murder. This is not free speech. This is the equivalent of yelling fire in a crowded theater.

These WANTED posters are communicating a threat to these abortion providers; doctors featured on WANTED posers in the past have become targets of anti-abortion extremists willing to kill, including most recently Dr. George Tiller.